The key to meditation is to recognize the nature of your mind rather than trying to change it.

The experience of emptiness engenders compassion.

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.

Change is the nature of every phenomenon. Accept this truth and you will live a happy life.

The spiritual journey begins with the recognition that beneath our surface happiness there lies a deep inner pain.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken! Take heed, do not squander your life.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person's suffering and bring that person joy.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy, and happiness is found in benefiting others.

Liberation is found in the practice, not in the theory.

Our task is to learn to see clearly what is happening in each moment, rather than be lost in our reactions and judgments.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.

Our practice cannot be perfect, but without being discouraged by this, we should continue it. This is the secret of practice.

The supreme path is not to fabricate anything. The supreme meditation is not to be distracted.

True happiness is not found through the multiplication of desires but through their simplification.

Awareness is the basis, or what you might call the "support," of the mind. It is steady and unchanging, like the pole to which the flag of ordinary consciousness is attached.

The true person is not anyone in particular. But like the deep blue color of the limitless sky, it is everyone, everywhere in the world.

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.

There is no difference at all between samsara and nirvana. There is no difference at all between nirvana and samsara.

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is awakened.

Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.

We can learn to be present with whatever is happening in our lives, and in this way, we can begin to transform our relationship to difficulty.

When you love someone, you have to have trust and confidence. Love without trust is not yet love.

The Buddha's teaching challenges us to master the art of living, to live in a way that leads to the extinction of suffering.

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

The essence of meditation is not something complicated or exotic. It is simply taking a break from our habitual patterns.

Right View is not just a matter of intellectual understanding but of seeing things as they really are.